What's the difference between beautified and overwrought?
Beautified
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Beautify
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(2) It could have gone into beautifying those parts of Stratford where people live.
(3) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(4) People lauded its quality of life; he moved factories to the city's edges and beautified the centre.
(5) While their husbands and boyfriends get on with their serious, ball-based business, the Wags are getting bouffed and beautified.
(6) And I try, recognising the vernacular of the films in which I work, to have some degree of reality within the beautifying forces of that machine.
(7) Changes like this usually happen through wars and natural disasters.” The academic and activist Iskra Geshoska is describing a project called Skopje 2014 , a comprehensive plan to “beautify” the city centre of Macedonia’s capital.
(8) And he has insisted the country physically clean itself up, choosing Gandhi’s birthday to launch the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission, enjoining his countrymen to sweep, tidy and beautify parks, streets and public places.
(9) For him war became an everyday experience of such rigour that he had little time to theorise about it, much less beautify it.
(10) Shoalstone began life as a natural rock pool and, over the years, it's been blasted out, levelled, painted, added to and beautified, mostly by volunteers.
(11) He said such women had "abandoned their basic duties such as housekeeping, bringing up children ... and replaced this by beautifying themselves and wantonness".
(12) To borrow his description of Autolycus (in The Winter’s Tale ), our national playwright was a “snapper-up of unconsidered trifles”, denounced in his own time as a plagiarist (“an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers”), a writer of genius keenly alert to an extraordinary mix of cadences, ideas and emotions.
(13) For some, the home has become this constantly made-over, beautified status symbol.
(14) The main activity at the jail is beautifying; sometimes it almost seems like the largest beauty parlour in Mexico.
(15) The dermatologist can better aid the patient with hair difficulties if he or she has an understanding of the formulation and effects of products designed to cleanse, beautify, and modify the hair.
Overwrought
Definition:
() of Overwork
(p. p. & a.) Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
(2) No one assumes that New Zealand will have an impact in South Africa, yet insouciance is an asset when other sides are so overwrought.
(3) Lost in all of the cyber-Armageddon rhetoric is Sony’s own negligent security practices, which is maybe where some of Hollywood’s own overwrought ire should be pointed, rather than blaming journalists for reporting.
(4) The season premiere, which aired on Sunday, has everything its returning fans demand: shocks and quips and china sauce-boats, and overwrought manners and hats.
(5) One morning we had a text vote for whether or not to play Curtain Call by the Damned, in its full 18 minutes of overwrought gothic glory.
(6) Overwrought tell-all memoirs are liable to elicit this response even from those who are not directly affected.
(7) One of the older ones actually burst into tears, somewhat overwrought by the whole experience.
(8) I, for one, enjoyed the overwrought silliness of series two.
(9) He is overwrought and half-asleep, and so Forster risks giving him purple cravings for "big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science can reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend".
(10) The 34-year-old was as overwrought as any testosterone-maddened youngster but could still have contrived a triumph.
(11) It’s as if too many overwrought, mainly male, pub bores have been allowed to take over what is, never forget, a vote for the whole country’s future.
(12) Should he ever need alternative employment - and, after all, he might - Brown might consider a career writing poems in overwrought Hallmark greetings cards.
(13) The understandable but overwrought attacks on Saif Gaddafi that followed his embrace of his father, clan and regime in Tripoli at the start of the uprising, have made it extremely difficult to pursue a diplomatic track in Libya.
(14) All of which she squares up to with Boudiccan fortitude (overwrought grandma years).
(15) There is a danger for Franzen, that an author who is not a native user of the internet will be exposed in the way in which he writes about it, and there are a few false notes in Purity; an off use of the term “going viral”, a tin-eared reference to Jeff Bezos, and the overwrought phrase “moused and clicked” to describe the activity of industrious interns at their desks.
(16) Whether overwrought or merely unlucky, Liverpool could not capitalise on initial ebullience and fell behind nine minutes from the interval.
(17) In a number of later films, he is often seen trying to direct some overwrought superstar.
(18) It certainly paved the way for two acclaimed debut albums in the trip-hop vein – Portishead's dense and sometimes overwrought Dummy (1994) and Tricky's darkly mesmeric Maxinquaye from 1995 – as well as the more well-mannered beats of acts such as Morcheeba and Zero 7.
(19) For me, it’s just indulging my passion for overwrought choreography, pure performance and cheesy music.
(20) I felt odd: overtired, overwrought, unpleasantly like my brain had been removed and my skull stuffed with something like microwaved aluminium foil, dinted, charred and shorting with sparks.